The Crow

We're lucky - we've got three pubs near us that are like proper English pubs

oliver1982

It took me a while to figure out that they weren't actually 'Hotels'.

cresta57

The Pig & Whistle at the Plaza has some fine ales for sampling, I've spent many a happy hour "lost" in there, waiting patiently for Deb to find me
How about the Penny Farthing up on the range? Plenty of guest ales on tap with a nice ambiance & good food.
As Worzel said when it gets to 30°C supping a pint of Theakston's Best Bitter in the snug just doesn't appeal.
I like most of the pubs up here in Gympie, there's plenty of them, about 14 I'd guess. All do a nice cold beer on a hot day. I've grown to like them more with time, I've forced myself through the doors of each of them time & time again in an effort to wean myself away from the alluring warmth & hospitality of the Black Horse or the Nag's Head......................

Bunna_Wabbit

When I was living in Melbourne there were a few pubs on street corners around Prahran, Hampton, Sandringham etc. that looked and felt a bit more like traditional English Pubs than the ones up in Brissy do - (but then so did the weather) !

BadgeIsBack

Spent the night there on my drive down from Sydney to Melbourne.
Or rather I drank there - I kipped in the ute.

You do indeed. Here's mine. 2k from the house with it's vineyard.

cresta57

Here you go MP "Walkabout" pick the closest one to you
We even had one in GRIMsby

jonah38

Please define what a 'British Pub' is like.

Are we talking about the White Horse with wooden floors, oak beams, dart board, pool table, old mans saloon, bar stools with only 4 people drinking and one playing himself at killer?

jonah38

Its a sports bar then - witherspoons or Yates but with music - same same

cresta57

No no the OP was wanting traditional type British pubs i.e White Horse, Nags Head, Queen Victoria...........
Lamenting the absence of Pork Scratchings, warm beer & a good curry after a belly full of Watney's Red Barrel & a good punch up

bigAPE

If I wanted and English Pub I would go to England and if I wanted a Cornish Pub I would go to Cornwall. I'm living in Australia and, guess what, they have Australian pubs

Not any more. All pseudo-modern crap hotels now.

jonah38

The nail on the head - like it

Hutch

Haha - yea, I went there the day of the show/fair/thing and recall sitting in that area out the back under a tarp as it pissed down with rain, with one hand over me schooner to stop the rain getting in it. I took that to be about as authentic a British pub experience as I was likely to get in New South Wales.

lisaroo

cant really fatham what your all on about, to be honest i went out today to YE OLDE BRITISH PUB and it was shit, they had to put the outside heaters on and i was still freezin!!!! i can understand that you all miss it but i would give anything to be back in the easy sunshine, schooner, casual scene of my local surfclub!!!! so hey guys TRY and be grateful for dry warm weather EVEN in WINTER EH!!!!!

Red_V_Roger

I think what gets me is that many of the pubs in NSW, QLD & VIC (sorry not been to TAS or SA yet) are really just betting shops with beer licences. People in WA may not know this as its different there - more like UK where the betting is not inside the pub.

There are some pubs round us that would be a lot better if when it got to 9PM on a Friday night they turned off the TV's showing computerised horse racing that nobody is watching or betting on and put a bit of muisc on...or just turned the bloody things off.

sonlymewalter

We're in Australia. Australia has Australian pubs

Why anyone would move to a country 12,000 miles away and expect the same as the country they left is beyond comprehension

I think you meant to move to Benidorm. You need to retrace your steps and turn right at the lights before you hit England